Can anyone identify this small bird?

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soakes
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Can anyone identify this small bird?

I think I know what it is, but would like confirmation.  It is small and active, located in Gippsland.

- soakes

darinnightowl
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Hi Soakes
Now you got me thinking , but maybe a Jacky Winter ( immature ))

See it!  Hear it!

Mid-North Coast NSW

pacman
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it is definitely young

Peter

rawshorty
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I am no expert but at close inspection it looks to me to be a female superb fairy wren.

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/ 

soakes
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Wow, some differing opinons there!

I think it is a juvenile rose robin, as it has been hanging around and actring like a female rose robin that I have seen about here recently.

I would be equally happy if it is a Jacky Winter, since I have never (positively) seen one, but I don't think so.

I'm pretty sure it's not a blue wren.  There are a lot of them about here and I think I would recognise one by its tail action.

- soakes

soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia

Araminta
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Hi soakes, I'm with you on the female Robin. The marking on the wing, the long tail downwards, and the round eye. (one bird it is certainly not, a female wren). But have a look at the "red-capped Robin" I posted? I think yout bird has an eyering and the marking on the wing is longer than in the Rose Robin's, it could be a young Red-capped Robin. What do you think?

M-L

soakes
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It would be cool if it is a red-capped robin, as I have not seen them around here before.

I haven't seen these robins in the past 2 days.

- soakes

soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia

Owen1
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Definitely a Rose Robin.

Cheers, Owen.

soakes
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Thanks, Owen. :-)

- soakes

soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia

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